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What Art and Stories Tell Us is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on what writers' and artists' work shows about life in the past, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.His.2.3-5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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What Art and Stories Tell Us

D2.His.2.3-5

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1.How did Ansel Adams's photographs help America's wild places?
  • A.They sold land to mining companies
  • B.They showed people the beauty of lands worth protecting as parks
  • C.They helped build highways through the parks
2.What can Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books teach about the past?
  • A.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  • B.How astronauts trained for the Moon
  • C.How city children rode subways
3.Langston Hughes wrote about Harlem in the 1920s. What do his poems help us learn?
  • A.How the Constitution was written
  • B.How to farm wheat on the prairie
  • C.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
4.Why was Phillis Wheatley's 1773 book of poems important?
  • A.It was the first newspaper in America
  • B.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  • C.It was the first map of Boston
5.Why does Maria Martinez's pottery matter to San Ildefonso Pueblo?
  • A.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  • B.It shows the Moon landing
  • C.It was made in a factory in Europe
6.Why are Hokusai's prints of waves and Mount Fuji famous around the world?
  • A.They are the oldest maps of America
  • B.They were painted on the Moon
  • C.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
7.What do Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series paintings help us understand?
  • A.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
  • B.How farmers used tractors in 1990
  • C.How the Pilgrims crossed the ocean
8.Why did Diego Rivera paint murals on large public walls?
  • A.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers
  • B.So only rich people could see them
  • C.So the paintings could stay hidden

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Answer key — What Art and Stories Tell Us

Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.They showed people the beauty of lands worth protecting as parks
  2. 2.How a pioneer family lived on the frontier in the 1870s and 1880s
  3. 3.What life and hopes were like for African Americans in Harlem
  4. 4.It made her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems
  5. 5.It carried on and renewed the Pueblo's pottery tradition
  6. 6.They show Japanese landscapes and inspired artists in many countries
  7. 7.Why many African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North
  8. 8.So many people could see stories of Mexican history and workers

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.2.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.